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Julia Cameron Inspirational Quotes (174)

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Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
Julia Cameron
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You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.
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As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.
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For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.
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The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.
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Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.
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Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and lay it down. I can pare it, shape it, and polish it later...My job is to take down the dribs and drabs - to free-associate, if you will, knowing that the associations have their own plans for where we're going with all this.
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Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one
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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
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I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.
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We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.
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We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
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I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon.
Julia Margaret Cameron
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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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My heart holds the world in tender awe.
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You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
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Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
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At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
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As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.
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Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.
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we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.
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Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.
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